The Impact of Family-Friendly Practices on Work–Family Balance in Spain

摘要: Not being able to combine work with family properly is negatively related employees’ quality of life. Some firms are aware this reality and provide their employees family-friendly practices, a set practices designed enable work–family balance. Family-friendly classified in three subsets: support flexible arrangement parental leave practices. Then, paper analyzes the impact different subsets on balance for women men subsamples, as well disentangle mechanisms through such effects occur. Based representative sample 8,061 Spanish workers using Baron Kenny procedure test mediation, results show that increase both genders, although some them have men. In line societal gender role expectation, better accommodate men’s need, increasing almost them, women’s more them. However, equally genders. Moreover, all cases, effect goes beyond time outside at work, then partial mediation indicates an important mechanism achieving sum, offering good starting point order people’s life by helping achieve